Paris Olympics 2024: Neeraj Chopra wins silver medal, Arshad Nadeem breaks Olympic record
Neeraj Chopra won the silver medal at the Paris Olympics 2024, failing to defend his gold medal in Tokyo. His best throw was 89.45 meters, which took him to second place. Pakistan's Arshad Nadeem won the gold medal with an Olympic record throw of 92.97 meters. Neeraj has increased India's medal count to five with this medal.
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INDC Network : Sports : Paris Olympics 2024 : After 13 days of waiting and in the final event of their campaign, India finally secured another medal besides bronze at Paris Olympics 2024. Indian athletics' shining star Neeraj Chopra could not defend the gold medal he won in Tokyo, but he did secure India's first medal by winning a silver medal. Neeraj's second and only valid throw was 89.45m, his best performance this season. However, it was not enough to overtake Pakistan's Arshad Nadeem, who broke the Olympic record of 92.97m to win the gold.
Despite not winning the gold medal in Tokyo, Neeraj Chopra gave India its first silver medal at Paris Olympics 2024. With this brilliant performance, Neeraj took India's total medal count to five, and also gave the country a chance to win another medal. After Swapnil Kusale's bronze medal in the men's 50m rifle 3 position final, India had not won any medal for six days. But that drought ended with Neeraj's silver and the men's hockey team's bronze on Thursday evening.
Neeraj Chopra has now become India's second individual male athlete to win multiple medals at the Olympics after Sushil Kumar. There were high expectations from Neeraj at the Paris Games, but he had formidable opponents like Julian Weber, Anderson Peters and Arshad Nadeem in front of him. Neeraj, Arshad and Weber all fouled in their first attempts at the start of the competition. Arshad quickly took control and put pressure on Neeraj by crossing the 90m mark. Neeraj did well in his second attempt, but fouled again in the third. After three rounds, even after reaching the top eight, Neeraj faced tough competition from Vadlej, Peters, Yego and Weber.
Peters took the lead with a throw of 88.54m in the fourth round, while Neeraj finished second. Though Neeraj tried to improve the situation, he committed another foul. Neeraj's throw was also declared a foul in the fifth round. After this, Arshad Nadeem maintained his lead by throwing 84.87 meters. Neeraj's last attempt was also a foul, and thus he won the silver medal.
Arshad Nadeem won the gold medal by covering a distance of 91.79 meters in his last throw and celebrated this great achievement.
